Shifted Baselines Reduce Willingness to Pay for Conservation

McClenachan, Loren; Matsuura, Ryunosuke; Shah, Payal; Dissanayake, Sahan T. M.

doi:10.3389/fmars.2018.00048

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“…Despite tourists strongly agree that coral has severely degraded, more than half of respondents were willing to revisit the park, and two-thirds of the respondents were satisfied with the overall quality of the tourism experience. On the other hand, research shows that visitors are willing to pay for coral reefs restoration and preservation (McClenachan et al, 2018;Rolfe & Windle, 2012;Schuhmann et al, 2019;Tseng et al, 2015).…”

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Climate change, coastal tourism, and impact chains – a literature review

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Figini

García

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Current Issues in Tourism

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Climate change impacts tourism, since both supply and demand of tourism services depend on the quality and the management of a set of environmental attributes. This paper critically reviews the empirical evidence in the literature of the last twenty years (2000-2019), by identifying the potential impacts of climate change in coastal and maritime destinations. The concept of Impact Chains is the methodological framework through which the literature is systematically selected, classified and assessed. A great heterogeneity of results is found, with estimates of physical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change differing across destinations and methodologies. Moreover, the majority of recent studies mainly deals with only a few of the most important impacts, hence future research should be redirected to overlooked indicators and relationships, which are key for designing effective climate policies at tourism destinations.

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confidence: 99%

Climate change, coastal tourism, and impact chains – a literature review

Arabadzhyan

Figini

García

et al. 2020

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…In Curaçao and Bonaire (Netherlands), fishers’ baselines were not shifted because stories of plentiful past catches were passed down within these communities, whereas scuba divers had unrealistically positive perceptions of the health of the reefs and fish populations because they lacked this information (Johnson & Jackson, 2015). Such shifted baselines have implications for conservation, as they may lead to reduced restoration targets for exploited species (McClenachan et al, 2012, 2018).…”

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Shifted baselines and the policy placebo effect in conservation

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Ramdeen

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Coastal ecosystems have been degraded by human activity over centuries, with loss of memory about past states resulting in shifted baselines. More recently conservation efforts have resulted in localized recoveries of species and ecosystems. Given the dynamism of ecosystem degradation and recovery, understanding how communities perceive long-term and recent changes is important for developing and implementing conservation measures. We interviewed stakeholders on three Caribbean islands and identified a shifted baseline with respect to the extent and degree of long-term declines in marine animal populations; stakeholders with more experience identified more species as depleted and key species as less abundant than those with less experience. Notably, the average respondent with < 15 years of experience listed no species as depleted despite clear evidence of declines. We also identified a phenomenon we call the policy placebo effect, in which interviewees perceived some animal populations as recently recovering following passage of new conservation legislation but in the absence of evidence for actual recovery. Although shifted baselines have a negative effect on conservation as they can lower recovery goals, the outcomes of a policy placebo effect are unclear. If the public prematurely perceives recovery, motivation for continued conservation could decline. Alternatively, perception of rapid success could lead communities to set more ambitious conservation goals.

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“…As a result, people may have become disconnected from (largely) extinct species like Atlantic salmon in countries such as Germany (Wolter 2015; Lenders et al 2016; Kochalski et al 2018; Liebich et al 2018). Such a development would be critical as a loss of memory of past environmental degradation may ultimately lead to a reduction in the public’s engagement with, and notably their willingness-to-pay for, conservation efforts (McClenachan et al 2018). While people were indifferent to grayling, European eel provided benefits to the French and Swedish societies as did sturgeon to all countries except Sweden.…”

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Managing river fish biodiversity generates substantial economic benefits in four European countries

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Meyerhoff

Fujitani

et al. 2018

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31Ecosystems and biodiversity produce benefits to society, but many of them are hard to quantify. For example, it 32 is unclear whether European societies gain benefits from experiencing rivers that host high native biodiversity. 33Without such knowledge, monetary investments into ecologically oriented river management plans are difficult 34 to justify. The objective of this study was to reveal how the public in four European countries values ecological 35 characteristics of domestic rivers and the outcomes of hypothetical river basin management plans designed to 36 improve river ecosystems, particularly fish biodiversity. We conducted a choice experiment among the 37 populations in Norway, Sweden, Germany and France. We found similar preference structures in all countries 38 with high marginal willingness-to-pay for improvements of abiotic river attributes (increased accessiblity of the 39 river banks, improved bathing water quality, decreased river fragmentation). Citizens also benefited from certain 40 fish species occurring in a river with native salmonid species being more valued than nonnatives, particularly in 41 Norway, and from the degree of a river's native biodiversity. Welfare measures calculated for selected river basin 42 management plans (policy scenarios) revealed societal benefits that were primarily derived from ecological river 43 management whereas a scenario focusing on hydroelectricity production generated the lowest utility. We 44 conclude that ecological river management may produce high nonmarket economic benefits in all study 45 countries, particularly through the management of abiotic river attributes and the restoration of declining or 46 extinct fish species. Our results help to inform decisions on restoration efforts by showcasing the benefits that 47 these measures have for the public. 48 49 Keywords 50 choice experiment, economic values, river basin management plan, river fish conservation, native biodiversity, 51 hydropower dams 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 65 range of anthropogenic pressures (e.g.

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Shifted Baselines Reduce Willingness to Pay for Conservation

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References 37 publications

Climate change, coastal tourism, and impact chains – a literature review

Climate change, coastal tourism, and impact chains – a literature review

Shifted baselines and the policy placebo effect in conservation

Managing river fish biodiversity generates substantial economic benefits in four European countries

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